Children of the Alley Author:Naguib Mahfouz, Peter Theroux (Translator) In one of the most important novels of his long and illustrious career, Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley shows how the actions of men and women in Cairo echo -- unbeknownst to them -- the actions of their holy ancestors. — The tale of a Mafia-like don in Egypt. He lives in a mansion in Cairo, uphill at the en... more »d of an alley whose inhabitants he exploits. He is the patriarch of a large family whose wealth comes from dealing in drugs and various protection rackets. While family members jockey for power, the people below live in squalor, dreaming of the revolutionary heroes their poverty produced.
An expose of injustice in Egypt by a Nobel Prize winner and author of 30 novels. This book was first published in Arabic in 1959.« less